Former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was sentenced to 78 months in prison on Monday after having been convicted on corruption charges twice since 2015. U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni, an Obama appointee, sentenced Silver, a Democrat, for the third time after previous convictions had been partly or fully overturned. Silver’s attorneys asked for their…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…